Edwards, Roberta
Summary: While the coronavirus COVID-19 changed the world in 2020, it still isn't the largest and deadliest pandemic in history. That title is held by the Plague.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHARollins, James
Summary: From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind. But it is merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow. Aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift hospital, Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis, operatives of SIGMA Force, search for answers to the bizarre affliction. But there are others with far less altruistic intentions. In a savage and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RolO'Hearn, Kate.
Summary: "A deadly plague has struck Olympus and is slowly aging and killing the Olympians. Emily can only stand by and watch as those she loves fade and die. But in one last desperate attempt to save those she loves, she journeys back to Earth to face the CRU, then back in time to confront Cronus, leader of the Titans and father of the gods"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC OHEFitzharris, Lindsey
Summary: "This book delves into several illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations. Each chapter explores the history of a specific disease, detailing the symptoms, cures, and medical breakthroughs that it spawned"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023
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Summary: Traces the massive effort to contain an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900 San Francisco, detailing how the process was complicated by virulent racism, pseudoscience, and political cover-ups.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 RANSummary: Since WWII, Calvin Barr has lived with the secret that he was responsible for the assassination of Adolf Hitler. Now, decades later, the US government has called on him again for a new top-secret mission. Bigfoot has been living deep in the Canadian wilderness and is carrying a deadly plague that is now threatening to spread to the general population. Relying on the same skills that he honed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MANSummary: Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off fear and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: I am legend: Immune to an incurable virus, Robert Neville believes he is the last human on Earth and tries to find a cure to stop the mutant creatures that still roam New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "Plagues upon the Earth is a history of human civilization and the germs that have shaped its course. At every stage in our species' past, micro-organisms have had macro-effects on the development of human societies. Kyle Harper proposes the first history of human disease to make full use of a radical new source of evidence: pathogen genomes as a biological archive and window into prehistoric...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.4 HARVaughan, Brian K.
Summary: It's 2002, and a plague of unknown origin has killed all of the male mammals on Earth-all except an amateur escape artist named Yorick Brown and his surly helper monkey, Ampersand. As the last remaining & -chromosome carriers on the planet, Yorick and his pet hold the fate of humanity in their hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2006
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2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAUSummary: A crisis plagues the world: Spontaneous Human Combustion. The only ones trained to stop these blazing mortal infernos are the brave members of the Fire Force. Shinra is determined to become the greatest hero, but his past leads him to a different destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME FIRJarrow, Gail
Summary: Traces the efforts of doctors to halt the spread of the plague during the 1900 outbreak in San Francisco, discussing how political leaders tried to keep the epidemic from being publicized and the scientists working to unlock the secrets of the disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616 JARMessner, Kate
Summary: "With a mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels, this book uncovers the hidden truths about history's pandemics, from the Black Death to COVID-19"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.4 MESReeve, Philip.
Summary: In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, Tom and Hester hope that the ice city of Anchorage will reach the rumored haven of the Dead Continent--America--before the savage Huntsmen of Arkangel find them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EOS 2004
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REEVaughan, Brian K.
Summary: It's 2002, and a plague of unknown origin has killed all of the male mammals on Earth-all except an amateur escape artist named Yorick Brown and his surly helper monkey, Ampersand. As the last remaining & -chromosome carriers on the planet, Yorick and his pet hold the fate of humanity in their hands. To ensure the survival of the species, they've teamed up with a gun-toting government agent and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2003
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAUBeukes, Lauren
Summary: "Three years after a plague has wiped out the male population, twelve-year-old Miles is one of the last boys alive, and his mother, Cole, will protect him at all costs. On the run after a horrific act of violence, and pursued by Cole's own ruthless sister, Billie - all Cole wants is to raise her kid somewhere he won't be preyed on as a reproductive resource or a sex object or a stand-in son....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books / Little Brown & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEUElliott, Colin P.
Summary: "A new account of the Antonine plague and its long-lasting effects on the history of the Roman empire"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2024
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Summary: "A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history--from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism--have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.4 KENSykes, S. D.
Summary: "In 1349, Oswald, the third son of the de Lacy family, was an eighteen-year-old novice monk at Kintham Abbey. Sent to collect herbs from the forest, Oswald comes across a terrified village girl. Frenzied with fear, she runs headlong into a swollen river. Oswald pulls her broken and bruised body from the water and returns her to the local village, only to discover that several other women have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime, an imprint of Pegasus Books, Ltd 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SYKSummary: It's 1666, and England is in the grip of the Great Plague. But when the Doctor and his companions arrive, they discover an even greater threat: the entire planet is in danger. As the Grim Reaper stalks the countryside, the Doctor uncovers an alien menace intent on wiping out humanity and claiming our planet for themselves. The Terileptils have arrived, and only the Doctor can stop them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCCunningham, Kevin
Summary: A history of the plague which caused one of the most catastrophic losses of life in history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Co. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.9232 CUNMignola, Michael
Summary: After a devastating plague ends World War I, Europe is suddenly flooded with vampires and a soldier, Lord Henry Baltimore, is determined to wipe out the monsters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics, Inc. 2012
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Summary: "With the world consumed by a devastating plague, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on the Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together the remains of the US Navy, Wolf Squadron, and its leader Steve Smith, plans to retake the mainland from the infected, starting with North America. The next step: produce a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RINVaughan, Brian K.
Summary: It's 2002, and a plague of unknown origin has killed all of the male mammals on Earth-all except an amateur escape artist named Yorick Brown and his surly helper monkey, Ampersand. As the last remaining & -chromosome carriers on the planet, Yorick and his pet hold the fate of humanity in their hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2005